The Great New Zealand Baking Book

I’ve always been envious of my mother’s innate ability to just wing this sort of thing. I know that if I was ever as cavalier while baking it would end up a complete disaster, yet her end result is always spot-on. Naturally, every time I ask her for anything resembling a precise recipe, she is infuriatingly vague. Being a chef, I daren’t improvise with baking so this is my take on what she does. I bet she’ll tell me it’s ‘passable’!

Over the years we have done lots of different variations with this frypan brownie, as it is always on our menu in some form. But this is our all-time favourite. The recipes does not have a large amount of flour in it and can easily be made gluten free by using a gluten-free flour to replace the plain flour. At Cibo we make our own gluten-free flour blend, but you can use any supermarket blend.